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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1916:

1 Events

January

• January 12 - German aces Max ImmelmannMax Immelmann ( September 21, 1890 June 18, 1916) was a German Flying ace of World War I. He was born in Dresden the son of a paper board container factory owner. After leaving school he joined Eisenbahnregiment Berlin''. During 1913 1914 he studied mecha and Oswald Boelcke, with 8 kills, are the first pilots awarded with Pour le MériteThe Pour le Merite known informally as the Blue Max was Germany's highest military order awarded during World War I. The award was first founded in 1740, named in French, the language of the royal court, for merit''. Until 1810 the award was both a civili ("the Blue Max")
• January 29January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 336 days remaining, (337 in leap years). Events 1676 Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia. 1845 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time New York Evening Mirror . - the second and last ZeppelinThis is an article about Zeppelin aircraft. There was also a famous British rock band by the name Led Zeppelin. LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin the most traveled airship in history A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship (or dirigible pioneered by Count Ferdinand von raid on ParisEiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital and largest city of France. The city is built on an arc of the River Seine, and is thus divided into two parts: the Right Bank to the north and the smaller Left Bank to inflicts 54 casualties.

March

• March 16March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). There are 290 days remaining. Events 1190 Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York, England. 1521 Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines. 1621 Samoset, a Mohegan, - US military aircraft fly their first mission over foreign soil when Curtiss JN3 s of the 1st Aero Squadron carry out reconnaissance over MexicoThis article is about the country Mexico. For other meanings, see Mexico (disambiguation The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or Mexico regarding the use of the variant spelling Mejico see section The name below) is a co.
• March 18 - German ace Ernst Udet scores his first kill

April

• April 20 - the Escadrille Américanne, later to be known as Lafayette Escadrille, is established as an American volunteer unit in France, equipped with Nieuport 11 s.

May

• May 2 - eight German Zeppelins raid the east coast of England, causing 39 casualties. The Zeppelin L 20 is wrecked in a storm off Stavanger, Norway on the return journey.
• May 17 - Parasite fighter experiments begin in the UK to launch a Bristol Scout from a Porte Baby airship.

June

• June 17 - the first French ace, Jean Navarre , is shot down and wounded, ending his combat career with 12 confirmed kills.
• June 18 - the first German ace Max Immelmann is shot down and killed by a FE.2b from No. 25 Squadron RFC -- a symbolic end of the " Fokker Scourge". He had scored 15 kills.
• June 23 - Victor Chapman of Lafayette Escadrille becomes the first US airman to be killed in action, shot down near Verdun.

July

• No.3 Wing RNAS becomes Britain's first strategic bombing unit, equipped with Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutters
• July 1 - beginning of the Battle of the Somme. In the five months of the battle, the British lose 782 aircraft and 576 pilots but maintain air superiority over the battlefield.

August

• August 2 - 16 German Zeppelins raid southeast England. Lt William Leefe-Robinson , RFC shoots down Zeppelin SL 11 in a BE.2c.
• August 6 - French ace Capitaine René Fonck gains his first confirmed victory.
• August 27 - Oswald Boelcke creates the first German special fighter squadron Jagdstaffel 2 (Jasta 2).

September

• September 15 - French submarine Foucault is sunk by two Austrian flying boats, becoming the first submarine to be sunk by an aircraft.
• September 17 - Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen scores his first kill, from a Albatros D.II
• September 23- 24 - eleven Zeppelins attack England in a mass air-raid. Two are shot down, LZ 76 by ground fire, and LZ 74 by Lt Frederick Sowrey

October

• October 12 - Royal Naval Air Service ace Raymond Collishaw claims his first victory.
• October 28 - German ace Oswald Boelcke is killed in a mid-air collision.

November

• November 23 - British ace Lanoe Hawker VC is shot down by Manfred von Richthofen
• November 28 - Central London is bombed by an LVG C.II flown by R. Brandt